Who is Arthur Byron?

Arthur Byron was an actor, known for The Mummy (1932), 20,000 Years in Sing Sing (1932) and The President Vanishes (1934).

Trivia

  • Made his stage debut at the age of seventeen with a company. In his fifty years on the stage, he played more than three hundred characters in over ten thousand performances.
  • In 1938, a founding member of Actors' Equity Association, he was elected president of that organization.
  • American Film Institute Catalog of Feature Films 1931-1940 is under the impression, in their index, that Arthur Byron and Arthur S. Byron are the same person. They are not.
  • Probably should be nicknamed "Official" (Arthur "Official" Byron), to distinguish him from the unrelated actor nicknamed "Pop" (see on IMDB under A. S. "Pop" Byron). In his film career this Arthur "Official" Byron often played roles of government officials, professors, doctors, and other respectable gentlemen.
  • He was cremated at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, California after his funeral in its Wee Kirk Chapel. His urn was buried at Southside Cemetery in Skowhegan, Maine.